Comments on: 971 (113). The Pillow Book (1996, Peter Greenaway)

By: limousine service

limousine service — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:11:15 +0000

The film is a rich and artistic melding of dark modern drama with idealized Chinese and Japanese cultural themes and settings, and centers around body painting.

By: limousine service

limousine service — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:11:07 +0000

The film is a rich and artistic melding of dark modern drama with idealized Chinese and Japanese cultural themes and settings, and centers around body painting.

By: Cheap College Textbooks

Cheap College Textbooks — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:37:51 +0000

i read good reviews about this movie. I haven't watched this, but it seems like there's a lot of skin showed in this film.

By: Dlcmba

Dlcmba — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:11:27 +0000

Sin duda alguna nunca podré olvidar esta hermosa película. Muahcas gracias

By: Orthopedic Pillow

Orthopedic Pillow — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:48:22 +0000

Yes, I agree with you and like to see it.

By: lilo

lilo — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:13:36 +0000

Prospero's Books goes much deeper than this and had a good deal more substance in the narrative as well

By: Spider Veins

Spider Veins — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:52:05 +0000

This is an amazing film that showcases one's vision of beautiful calligraphy on human. A never seen before footage and a true work of art.

By: alsolikelife

alsolikelife — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:50:08 +0000

You may very well be right; I'm ashamed to say that I haven't seen The Falls or Prospero's Books. The Pillow Book represents something of a breakthrough with me and Greenaway since I was left underwhelmed by the other two films I had seen of his: The Draughtsman's Contract and The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover. He's a rather polarizing artist; few of my critic friends (a couple of whom are cited above) seem terribly interested in his work. At some point a retrospective is in order for a widespread reappraisal.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:08:49 +0000

I enjoy Greenaway getting any attention these days, as he seems long forgotten by the mainstream and retrospectively dismissed by the arthouse crowd. That being said, I think this is exactly the wrong kind of film to promote of his stuff, as it sends off major vibes of images being celebrated while the story is simply dismissed as some titillation and blood designed to make people think there's something brave there. If aesthetic innovation is what you are after, Prospero's Books goes much deeper than this and had a good deal more substance in the narrative as well. Or why not The Falls? It is imo the best translation to film the spirit of authors like Borges/Nabakov/Perec ever, the narrative is ridiculously dense in a manner that Greenaway has never even tried to approach again, and in spite of over three of the most pithy hours ever, it never feels pretentious or straining in the least like some of his later work does.

By: alsolikelife

alsolikelife — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:18:50 +0000

Yay, I'm glad you agree. It's remarkable how mixed the reviews were at the time. I think it's too easy to dismiss a film like this as pretentious – and as I say above, I think the way that audio visual media has evolved over the past decade has proven this film to have foresight, if nothing else.